Prussian Defenses Smashed Across Fronts
London reports Krosno evacuated as Germany loses hold on southwest Poland near Czechoslovakia. New York broadcast claims Red Army shattered East Prussian border fortifications and entered German soil. Moscow dispatch says Soviet forces drive German and Hungarian troops from eastern Carpathians toward Cluj as Malinovsky advances near Transylvania.
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New York
Red Army
East Prussian
Office of War Information
Moscow
Red
Eastern
Carpathians
Transylvanian Alps
Russia
Rodion Y ¥. Malinovsky
Cluj
Williamsport Considers Water Tank Plan At Council
A Williamsport delegation will ask the Mayor and Council to approve a stand pipe to ensure an uninterrupted water supply. Mayor Hawken and council members acknowledge the need after three recent outages and water shortages. The proposed tank would hold about 290000 gallons to prevent future closures and reduce fire risk.
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Williamsport Citzens
Richard G. Hawken
Williamsport
Hagerstown
Potomac
Indecent Exposure Verdict in City Court
James Chandler a railroad worker was found guilty of indecent exposure and fined 50 dollars plus costs by Magistrate Harry E Snyder this morning. Patrolman Stains testified police had received multiple complaints recently in the city court ruling.
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James Chandler
Harry E. Snyder
Stains
Prizes Awarded in Weekly News Tip Contest
A tip on infantile paralysis and a report on the film Wilson being shot in Washington county won first prize. Second prize shared by a balloon sighting in the Potomac and livestock deaths in Kee dysville. Third prize split between a Martinsburg youth facing a federal charge and a local man’s brother death. Tips accepted weekdays 7:30 am to 1:30 pm.
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Wilson
Washington County
Potomac River
Keedysville
Martinsburg
The
Daily Mail
City Market Ok After Saturday Price Review
State Office of Price Administration inspectors pronounced the City Market in very good shape after a Saturday morning check led by William J. Somerville. He praised stall renters for full cooperation with price regulations, noting only one minor violation found and addressed immediately. Leo H. McCormick directed the inspection and announced plans to send Somerville to Hagerstown for two weeks to investigate reports of violations. The visit spurred heightened interest in OPA rules among market renters seeking guidance.
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State Office of Price Administration
William J. Somerville
OPA
Somerville
Leo H. McCormick
Hagerstown
McCormick
Ration Office
Allied Planes Evacuate Tito's Wounded Partisans
Allied planes evacuated 10,000 wounded partisans of Marshal Tito's Yugoslav army, with ground forces trained at RAF schools in North Africa now operating on native soil in service squadrons.
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Rome
Marshal Tito
North Africa
Young NH Red pullets lay potential record eggs
Starting Young Seven New Hampshire Red pullets owned by Theodore Romesberg of Smithsburg began laying at six months. On Saturday they produced seven eggs, two double yolk. On Sunday they laid six eggs, including one double yolk.
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New Hampshire
Theodore Romesberg
Smithsburg
Negro War Pilots Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross
Rome Sept 11 Col Benjamin Davis Jr of New York commander of the all Negro 332nd Fighter Group of the U S 15th Air Force received the Distinguished Flying Cross from his father Brig Gen Davis of the Inspector General's Department. The elder Davis also presented DFSs to Capt Joseph D Ellsberry Langston Okla Lt Jack D Holsclaw Spokane Wash and Lt Clarence D Lester Chicago for their leadership over northern Italy on May 9 when they led a group attack against over 100 enemy fighters.
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Rome
Benjamin Davis, Jr
New York
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Davis
Inspector ‘General's Department
Joseph D. Ellsberry
Langston
Okla
Jack D
Maryland Forests To Be Mapped From Air
An aerial survey of Maryland woodlands begins under the American Forest Association. State Forester Joseph F. Kaylor says Harford county will be mapped first with Bel Air as headquarters. Readying supervisors learn map reading as photos will produce maps detailing location extent and timber stand makeup and tree height.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Woodands
American Forest Association
Joseph F. Kaylor
Harford County
Bel Air
Kaylor
Fairchild Army Cargo Plane Makes Initial Flight
The Flying Box Car of Fairchild Army Cargo Plane cheered by workers as it climbed after takeoff in its first flight. Richard Boutelle praised the aircraft’s design for operations from medium field sites and its cargo and personnel handling capabilities.
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Fairchild Army
Fairchild
Richard S. Goutelle
Fairchild Air
Maternity Ward Visitors Curbed
Washington County Hospital tightens access to the maternity ward restricting visitors to immediate family members only to protect mothers and newborns amid crowded conditions. Superintendent Charles J. Cotter notes higher deliveries than last year and says a new annex with eighteen beds should ease congestion by mid October.
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Washington County Hospital
Charles J. Cotter
Eyes on Maine election in governor and House races
Maine voters face statewide contests for governor and three U S House seats as campaigns target labor angles and turnout. Republican Hale faces Democrat Pettis in First District while CIO activity grows. clues from Maine may echo national trends this fall. Two strong earthquakes estimated from the Dutch East Indies reach Fordham seismographs in New York morning readings.
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Vprean
Maine
Pine Tree
U. S. House
CIO
Robert Hale
Andrew A. Pettis
Portland
CIO Shipyard Workers’ Union
Pettis
Hale
New York
Dutch East Indies
Fordham University
Joseph J. Lynch
Fordham
Aerial Armadas Strike Jap Island Bases War Update
Aerial armadas blasted Japanese island bases as U S carrier raids reached a fifth day. Land based planes targeted Formosa Halmahera and the Celebes. Attacks on Palau Yap and Mindanao grew in scale with hundreds of planes involved, no U S ships reported damaged.
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Acceiated Press
U. S
Palau
Philippines
Formosa
Halmahera
Celebes
Yap
Tokyo
Berlin
Mindanao
Tropical Hurricane Threat Approaches U S Coast
Weather Bureau reports a tropical storm with hurricane-force winds near its center, centered about 540 miles east of Nassau. At current speed and path, the system would not reach the U S coast for 40 to 50 hours, posing a risk to the Bahamas and nearby waters.
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Miami
Fla
Weather Bureau
Nassau
Bahama Islands
United States
Women Hear Campaign Plans At County Club Meeting
The Democratic Women's Club at the Grice building will hear Harold F. Bester outline plans to reelect President Roosevelt and Senator Tydings and to elect Daniel F McMullen to Congress. Judge Harvey M. Miller will discuss reasons to keep Roosevelt in office. The meeting starts at 8 with Mrs. Sarah Macias Stouffer presiding. A bowling-teams gathering follows.
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Democratic Women's Club
Grice Building
Harold F. Bester
Washington County Campaign Committee
Roosevelt
Tydings
Daniel F McMullen
Congress
Harvey M. Miller
Hawks That Preyed On Chickens and Pigeons Shot Down
D. H. Benedict, a farm operator near the Antietam Creek bridge, shot three hawks he says have been preying on his chickens and pigeons. He reports finding carcasses and observing short tailed hawks plucking pigeons in flight before taking them away.
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Antietam
Dual Highway
D. H. Benedict
Benedict
Truck Breaks Globe in Woodstock Incident
Willard Rohn, driver of a Great Lawrence Shows truck now in Woodstock Virginia, told police he broke a white way globe on Summit Avenue when his vehicle brushed the pole. He admitted responsibility for the shattered globe.
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Willard Rohn
Woodstock
Summit Avenue
Warn Nazi Soldiers Not To Kill Selves
Allied headquarters disclosed a captured enemy order warning Nazi soldiers in eastern France not to commit suicide as an act of desertion. The order noted that two officers and a non commissioned officer had recently taken their own lives.
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Rome
France
V Day Memorial Drive Aims EightHour Work Fight
Sherman Snodderly president of UAW CIO announced plans to petition all workers in Hagerstown to work eight hours on V Day the German surrender day and donate earnings to a fund for a Hagerstown Washington County servicemen memorial. A preliminary meeting with about 50 representatives approved the plan and surveys show 95 percent willing to contribute. Local leaders including the Mayor and Council back the project coordinating through the city, with Fairchild Corporation supporting plant participation if enough workers are guaranteed.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Sherman Spodderly
Uaw-Cio
Snodderly
CIO
American Federation of Labor
Fairchild Corporation
Londoners Return Ignoring Warning Of New Nazi Weapon
London evacuees streamed back to the city as government pleas to stay put were ignored. Lord Dudley warned the enemy may launch a longer range, different type weapon. About 1.5 million left London at the robot bombing peak and many faced homelessness with remaining bombed homes needing repairs or rebuilding.
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London
Lord Dudley
Midland Civil Defense Commissioner
British Vanguards At Dutch Doorstep
The British 2nd Army crossed the Schelde Meuse canal closing on the Dutch frontier. A senior officer called yesterday the best day of fighting with many German casualties in the 200 mile Normandy drive. About 12,000 prisoners were taken in three days between Albert and Schelde Meuse canals with an estimated 1,200 German deaths. At a crossroads 200 enemy bodies were found.
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Schelde-Meuse
Holland
Normandy
Albert
F D R In Quebec To Meet With Churchill
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill began a victory conference in Quebec on September 11 as Allied arms successes are cited. They exchanged brief remarks at the train, with Eleanor Roosevelt nearby, and spoke of war and victory amid a series of wartime meetings. Churchill arrived from Halifax. Roosevelt had traveled from the United States.
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Quebec
Roosevelt
Churchill
Britain
Ivied
Canada
Trinity House
Telio
Mr. Roosevelt
Eleanor
Halifax
Stephen Warly
Iluday
Pacific
Feat Harbor
The
Aleutians
Nazis Sentence Former Leipzig Mayor To Death With Six Others
London dispatch reports Dr. Kurt Friedrich Goerdeler, ex mayor of Leipzig, named ringleader of the July plot to kill Hitler. He and six other politicians were convicted by a peoples court and sentenced to death, with several high ranking conspirators already executed.
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Leipzig
Dr. Goerdeler
Hitler
London
Kurl
Friedrich Goerdeler
Exmayor
Adolf Hitler
Goerdeler
Berlin
Ulrich von Hasseli
Rome
British Move Up For Massive Assault On Line
Allied forces press into Belgium and Luxembourg as American and British troops push toward the Siegfried line. The American 1st Army advances into Luxembourg city while moving shells toward the Siegfried line near Aachen. British units prepare a northern assault while links with American advance toward Hasselt and the frontier tighten the fighting front.
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London
1St Army
Luxembourg
Aachen
Metz
Duchy
Sear ‘Horder
Germany
J Saarburg
Trier
U.S. 1St Army
2Nd Army
Siegfried Line
Hasselt
Kleve
Rhineland
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Great Allied Air Battle as 130 Nazi Planes Fall
In the largest air clash over the Reich, American fighters escorting 1000 heavy bombers claimed 130 enemy planes down. The two day total of American bomber raids nears 1900 per day, with 12 German planes destroyed on the ground and ongoing losses in western Germany. Numbers from the U S Eighth Air Force indicate an incomplete tally, with continued operations across bases in England Italy and North Africa. Continued on Page 16.
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London
Germany
Reich
Luftwaffe
Kingland
Italy
U.S
Eighth Air Force
Patton's Career To Be Filmed Shortly
Hollywood reports a movie on General Patton's career titled Blood and Courage with Charles Beckford cast as General Patton. Filming details and production notes are announced, highlighting a dramatic retelling of the World War II commander’s life.
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Patton
Holly Wogd
Avery
Gearea
Tateion
Ueki
Herhereat
Charles Beckford
Tee Geverek
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Barron
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Tito
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Bouitelle
Eyes Today
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Will
Count Wolf Hendrick von Helldorf
Trott Zu Spitz
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Mili
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